Are you using the master password on desktop?

No. I don't understand the relevance though — master passwords are local?

No. I don't understand the relevance though — master passwords are local?

Turns out that they appeared as few hours later, despite having informed me of a successful sync immediately. Not sure what took so long — I checked the page repeatedly after the confirmation, and it remained empty.

This link has more information about master password https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/using-master-password-sync

Once again, I fail to see why the master password is brought up at all.

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